coyahua. | Nahuatl Dictionary

coyahua.

Headword:

coyahua.

Principal English Translation:

to enlarge, widen; to become enlarged

John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: With an Analytical Transcription and Grammatical Notes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985), 93.

Orthographic Variants:

coyaua

IPAspelling:

koyɑːwɑ

Alonso de Molina:

coyaua. nitla. (pret. onitlacoyauh.) ensanchar algun agujero, o descortezar varas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

COYĀHU(A) vt to extend something, to enlarge a hole, to peel staffs / ensanchar algún agujero, o descortezar varas (M) See COYOC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 42.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

chiquacenpoual nehuitzanali napoual coyauatiuh = ciento veinte brazas del pie a la mano y de ancho ochenta
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Santa Bárbara Tamascolco, Tlaxcala, 1598), 290–291.

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Measurements, Quantities